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...breathless. It was a vast, dungeon- like factory filled with machines for injecting, cooling and grinding plastic. Three Chinese workers in ragged garb glanced at their visitors just once before getting back to the business at hand: running an around-the-clock assembly line capable of producing 2 million crack vials a day, worth an estimated $73 million a year...
...Government already has the power to crack down on the diet industry through the federal truth-in-advertising and mail-fraud laws. But these weapons have generally been used just against products that are truly outrageous. The Postal Service, for example, took action against diet sunglasses, which supposedly altered food color and made meals appear less appetizing, and a satin headband designed to emit electromagnetic waves that, according to the manufacturer's claims, help customers refuse to eat calorie- laden foods...
Women's colleges in general have been squeezed by two powerful trends. One is the baby bust of the late 1960s and '70s, which has meant a shrinking pool of college-age youngsters. Single-sex schools get a crack at only half that decreasing market. The other is the declining popularity of women-only education. Currently, just 3% to 11% of high school women say they would consider a women's college. Taken together, these changes have made it difficult for many all-female colleges to attract enough students to keep themselves afloat...
...type who thinks it would be "neat" to try crack, or who savors the wickedly orgasmic thrill of having nightmares, or who craves the speed fix that only skiing without turning can provide--in short, if you feel that there is nothing wrong with occasional immaturity, recklessness, outrageousness and lack of control--you should give metal a chance...
...great for those individuals but it still fails to address the crux of the problem which is the discriminatory policies themselves," said Bonauto. "It's one crack in the wall, but it's quite a thick wall...